Towards the end of December 2011, Burning Red were asked to exhibit a Christmas themed exhibition at the gallery space in Urban Outfitters in Cardiff.

Featuring work by Nic Finch, Lo Price and Alex Mills, we curated collection of personal pieces, rarities and oddities that we felt celebrated and evoked  ideas surrounding Chistmas in it’s many guises.

As you may or may not know, our Nic (you must say with a Cilla accent!) has been attempting grow a moustache for Movember. He began the month clean shaven and admittedly he had a rickety start, but nearing the end of the month he did indeed have a discernible growth of some shape across his top lip.

Although growing a moustache doesn’t take a great deal of effort or endurance, Movember is about raising awareness of men’s health.

So please read the blurb below, and if you can and feel inclined, it would be great if you could sponsor / donate a token amount towards an important cause.

It’s Movember, the month formerly known as November, now dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men’s health; specifically prostate and testicular cancer. Nic’s been donating my top lip to the cause for 30 days in an effort to help change the face of men’s health. His Mo sparked conversations, generated some laughs; all in the name of raising vital awareness and funds for cancer’s affecting men.

Why are we concerned about men’s health?

• 1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
• This year 37,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed
• 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime

You are cordially invited to give donation (of any quantity) in support of the Mo

DONATE HERE

http://mobro.co/chameleonic

Funds raised will help make a tangible difference to the lives of others. Through the Movember Foundation and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and The Institute of Cancer Research, Movember is funding world class awareness, research, educational and support programs which would otherwise not be possible.

For more details on how the funds raised from previous campaigns have been used and the impact Movember is having please click on the links below:

About Movember
Prostate cancer genome mapping
Prostate Cancer Foundation research
Global Action Plan

Thank you in advance for helping me change the face of men’s health.

www.montagnejeunesse.com

Final Applied Photography

CLIConline doesn’t stop there oh no! We have developed it so each local website has its own identity (in Cardiff its TheSprout, in Anglesey its Defaid … to name but a few), and its this local ownership that has helped drive the site(s) forward.

However, after all the technological, design and marketing involvement that we deal with, It was great to be there to celebrate the achievements of all the young people who have been using the service and also to appreciate how far the project has come during our time working on it. In case you are wondering what all the hats are about – well,  there was the best hat competition which the young gent to the left very deservedly won!

Here’s a bit more information by the CLICer of the year award winner, Jazmin Williams (read the full post on the guest ITV news blog here)

At 6pm the doors to the museum opened and we were greeted by local circus act No-Fit State, who were wonderful to watch. Inside the museum people were dressed in all sorts of odd hats (there was a prize for the best hat of the night, so I saw everything from a papier-mâché fox head to a giant banana suit!).

The evening was compered by two young people from the Anglesey site, Defaid, and entertainment from the night came in the form of comedian Robin Morgan and CLIC Battle of the Band winners Eric Unseen.

The categories were:

• Photographer of the Year
• Most Useful Article
• Funniest Article
• Most Involved CLICer
• Best Newcomer
• Video of the Year
• Best Creative Article
• Best Review
• (The grand prize) CLICer of the Year

Guest of honour Jeff Cuthbert AM, Deputy Minister for Skills, took to the stage and gave a speech before announcing CLICer of the Year.

Read the full article

Photos from the event

Not sure of the concept? not a problem, let us give you a quick summary:

Tag-Teams of multi-disciplined designers take on a collaborative flyer/poster design challenge to illustrate, cut, paste and layout a design in a showcase to flex their design skills to the max. Names are picked out of random from our specially prepared pots of wordage

Taking the cue from fight-club style creative battles, with teams of creatives working together to come up trumps with a design and layout they can be proud of; Design Wars lived up to its promise and was an awesome evening of light-hearted evening of live design, drinks, great conversation and a fantastic opportunity to hook up and meet like minded illustrators and designers and creative folk from around town… many of whom we’d only ever know via their superhero twitter usernames (we’re talking about your mr Foomandoonian)

Round 1

Team 3 Winner

Round 2

Team 4 Winner

Final Round

Team 3 / Final Winner

Photos from the night

Photo: www.boydphoto.co.uk

Photo: www.boydphoto.co.uk

Photo: www.boydphoto.co.uk

Photo: www.boydphoto.co.uk

Photo: www.boydphoto.co.uk

All photos from our flickr